The Crime of Father Amaro by Eça de Queirós

The Crime of Father Amaro

Eça de Queirós with Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)

471 pages 1875

54 editions

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Eça de Queirs's novel is a lurid satire of clerical corruption in a town in Portugal during a period before and after the 1871 Paris Commune.Young, virile Father Amaro arrives in Leira and is taken in as a lodger by São Joaneira. Her budding, devo...

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